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The next few chapters will be written in third-person POV to better accommodate multiple character perspectives. Let me know if you prefer this change or if you enjoyed the earlier first-person POV more.
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'The Emperor... He is dead...?'
'No. No way.'
Rune's mind raced through the implications.
He knew the current Emperor would die... but it would take place far in the future. At least ten to fifteen years from now. He didn't know the cause of death, nor who would succeed him. By the time the Emperor died in his past life, Rune had already reached a position where the lives of mundane people and their rulers hardly mattered to him anymore.
He'd been in an all-out drawn war with Netherworld beings on the front lines.
Not just him, most of the awakened at Master tier and above had already been involved in a throat-deep war with that new threat to humanity.
'Wait... if the Emperor is dead... then...'
Just as he suspected.
